Presented in the Victoria Room

Images and stories from the Wilderness

Internationally acclaimed nature, travel and adventure photographer John Beatty is set to inspire with his show Wild Vision, a fantastic audio-visual presentation which will leave audiences infused with energy and wonder at the beauty of our planet.A captivating and inspiring storyteller John's trips have taken him to over 38 different countries and have included seven months spent in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey, a winter in Spitzbergen where he surveyed 350 kilometres of untracked arctic mountains and glaciers and a four hundred mile unsupported sled traverse of the Greenland Icecap.

John’s work has taken him from the peaks of all the Greater Ranges to the American Deserts, to the teeming wildlife of East Africa and the wonder of the Galapagos Islands. Whether rafting down the Colorado River of the Grand Canyon, photographing footprints of yeti in the high snows of Himal, or celebrating round a campfire with Kalahari Bushmen, John’s stories leave his audiences infused with energy and wonder at the beauty of our planet.

As John explains, his work aims to capture “the timeless rhythms of the natural environment, its beauty and simplicity, and man’s place within it”.